Open Post

[kimberlysteele]

I'm currently on a writing and Ogham break until July 11 -- I'll be putting up my usual shingle for Ogham readings the night of Friday, July 11 for Ogham Readings on Saturdays -- so I am putting up this Open Post if anybody wants to talk. The photo is of Cedric the Eastern cedar, a tree I rescued from the back of my building back when I rented a commercial space to teach music lessons. Covid hysteria and fear-mongering ended that incarnation of my business, and though I am glad it gave me the opportunity to collapse ahead of schedule, it robbed my husband and I of a great deal of investment and labor. Cedric was a seedling back when I rescued him (her? whatever) in 2020.

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[(Anonymous)]

How do you usually pray to the Druid gods?

[kimberlysteele]

Pretty informally. Sometimes I get fancy and burn incense, but it is usually when I am walking around in the forest or sometimes while driving.

[mole_end]

So exactly where are you in the Land of Lincoln? I'm down here near I-70. I was looking around some of the online hangouts of Joe Limitless (Helmuth) the young rapper whom JMG has posted about more than once, and discovered he lives in Mattoon--just a hop, skip, and jump away from me--but I haven't been able to get him to answer any messages. I've been wondering if there are enough Ecosophia folks around here to have a Potluck Midwest...

[kimberlysteele]

I'm in Aurora! I don't think there are any Ecosophians up here.

[anon_ogham]

I'm in Arlington Heights.

[(Anonymous)]

Remember the song "Friday" from 15 years ago? Rebecca Black did not actually compose the song; it was composed by Clarence Jay and Patrice Wilson. However, Wikipedia and mainstream pop culture calls "Friday" a Rebecca Black song, even though the only thing that Rebecca Black did was be the first person to sing the song in public. It's like calling the Star-Spangled Banner a Ferdinand Durang song because he was the first person to sing the song in public in September 1812.

I hope that one day our society can wake up and start giving credit to the actual composers and lyricists of pop songs rather than the pop stars who perform them.

[kimberlysteele]

Interesting... I thought it was her song! The song is awful. It has almost no melody, just a horrible, nasal bunch of major seconds and perfect fifths, and it is autotuned so badly it's like the engineer pushed two buttons and was like "OK, I quit!" Oddly, I looked up Rebecca Black and she bills herself as a singer-songwriter these days. I certainly hope her original songs are better than Friday but I cannot be bothered to listen to them.

In my own case, my own rendition of the Orphic hymn to Hermes was finally covered by a young woman on TikTok who gives me credit as the translator and not the composer... le sigh. I was still happy about the song being covered.

Cedric

[(Anonymous)]

He looks wonderful now!

I have a Ginkgo tree living in my garden whom I’ve named Hermes.

I buried my 20 year old cat, Geranium, under Hermes to help fertilize him, when she died two springs ago. Geranium gets a fresh geranium plant over her grave every year. They both are next to a very old planting of three forty year old light pink roses. I’m thinking of calling the roses something too, but nothing sticks yet (other than the thorns, when I’m servicing the plantings)

I’d love to include a picture but I don’t know how, so use your imagination!

Annette

Re: Cedric

[kimberlysteele]

That's sweet! You've inspired me to plant on my beloved cat Kiki's grave. I have been meaning to put some perennials around it for years now and it is a project that keeps getting put off. I also have had quite a week and I need to earth it out no matter how bad the weather is tomorrow. Those pink roses must be amazing.

I have been having synchronicities with Hermes and oddly enough an Aztec warrior hummingbird god named Huitzilopochtli. In my personal Ogham that I call the Prairie Ogham, I attribute the Gingko tree to Nuin or Communication. In the old Celtic Ogham it is the Ash tree, but those don't grow around here in N. Illinois all that readily because of emerald ash borer. I planted an ash for Arbor Day at age 8 and it sadly never took off and died when I was 14. Gingkos, however, are far more robust in my area and I have always loved their graceful, fan-shaped leaves. I also love that they are the only tree that survived the Permian extinction.

Re: Cedric

[(Anonymous)]

How did the earthing go this past weekend?

The roses told me to call them Aphrodite.

That makes lots of sense, doesn’t it?

Hermes and Aphrodite with their pet cat Geranium.

Annette

Re: Cedric

[kimberlysteele]

I definitely touched grass! Thanks for asking. Yes, it does make sense. Geranium will be blessed in the afterlife.

[jpc_w]

This article got a mention over on Ecosophia, but I think it's a sign to re-visit the multi-year fate forcasts: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/sudden-and-unexpected-thursday-july

[kimberlysteele]

Interesting article, thanks for the link, I would have missed it otherwise. I don't think we are looking at demographic collapse just yet. Humans are easy to sicken and hard to kill. Deaths among old people are on the uptick, but from what I can tell, it is people dying at 75 who would have died at 83 and people dying at 85 who would have died at 92. The shots accelerate the death process. If anything, Big Medicine should be big mad because they are killing off their best customers (Boomers) before they get a chance to squeeze every last cent out of them via hospitals, drugs, treatments, surgeries, nursing homes, etc. For instance, my aunt died (very likely of the shots) and her turbo-cancer death was so quick, her kids ended up actually inheriting some money and property instead of it all going to the pay the nursing home and whatever insurance didn't cover.

[(Anonymous)]

The major demographic collapses are likely to come in the next decade when Europe, Russia, China, India, Africa, etc plunge into another massive war on the scale of WWI and WWII.

[kimberlysteele]

Empire is a bitch! I agree, they are going to fight it out and the losses will be spectacular. There will be blood. The world population is already past its peak and Ares, Saturn, and Thanatos are going to see to it that humans won't be so overpopulated in a geological nanosecond...

[(Anonymous)]

We enjoyed our first purslane from this year's garden yesterday. Picked fresh that day and sauteed in olive oil and sea salt; it was delicious!

Old Steve

[kimberlysteele]

Tasty! I love fried purslane.

[(Anonymous)]

Ginkgos are apparently also called "maidenhair trees".

[kimberlysteele]

I have heard that before!

[(Anonymous)]

Which druid gods are associated with which planets and which days of the week?

[kimberlysteele]

Not sure, but I would attribute them like so:

Esus: Sunday
Niwalen: Monday
Brigid: Tuesday
Hu: Wednesday
Lugh: Thursday
Sul: Friday
Ceridwen: Saturday

[(Anonymous)]

Have you seen this study?

https://ijirms.in/index.php/ijirms/article/view/2090/1487

TL:DR: study compares reports of "brain related problems" post C19shot to reports of same from other shots such as the flu shot... including depression, suicidal ideation, dementia, brain fog, and other things that might be shelved next to 'spiritual issues'. Rates *insanely higher* with the c19shots than with the comparison shots.

[kimberlysteele]

Wow... it makes sense though. My guess is that the demons who helped people get the shot would not have it any other way. I'm not the only one speculating that the Covid vaccinated may have afterlife problems: https://veilofreality.com/2022/05/24/covid-vaccines-consequences-on-the-soul-spirit-and-life-after-death/

[(Anonymous)]

This is why banishing rituals and discursive meditation are so important today, to counter the negative spiritual effects of the covid vaccines.

[kimberlysteele]

Exactly. Keep in mind I know people who died who took at least three of the shots. I don’t believe that some of those people suffered the same afterlife fate as the more arrogant types. It all depended on how much their good deeds and kind natures were able to save them. You really can sublimate your entire life through good works, generosity, and gratitude. As much as I say discursive meditation is an incredible key, it’s just one of many ways towards bettering oneself. Basically, it’s connection with the higher self Holy Guardian Angel that the Covid shot tries to sever. That’s what Thomas Mayer has apparently said in his book, and that’s certainly what I believe. Allowing that connection to be severed is actually a choice, and at any time, the choice can also be made to say “No, I choose connection with my higher self, and HGA.” another great thing about connection with the higher realms is that it is not something that is confined to being done one way via one truth. Just as there are many lies on this planet, there are many truths.

[(Anonymous)]

I should also add that prayer to benevolent higher powers is also helpful in addressing the negative spiritual effects of the Covid vaccine.

For example, if you believe in the Archangel Raphael, there is this prayer to Raphael:

O Glorious Archangel St. Raphael, great prince of the heavenly court, you are illustrious for your gifts of wisdom and grace. You are a guide of those who journey by land or sea or air, consoler of the afflicted, and refuge of sinners. I beg you, assist me in all my needs and in all the sufferings of this life, as once you helped the young Tobias on his travels. Because you are the “medicine of God” I humbly pray you to heal the many infirmities of my soul and the ills that afflict my body. I especially ask of you the favor (here mention your special intention), and the great grace of purity to prepare me to be the temple of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

And you can make your special intention something like the healing of your body and soul from the Covid vaccines.

[(Anonymous)]

Same link says that chemotherapy is bad for the soul and etheric body as well. So it's not just the covid vaccine.

[(Anonymous)]

Aha, you know veilofreality.com as well. I've actually bought the book by Thomas Mayer. It's dark alright, a grim reading. The author does insist on the fact the jabs "disassemble" the subtle bodies from themselves and from the physical ones, everything is just loose, and of course there can be plane-corresponding parasites opportunistically inserting 'emselves...
Harrowing.
There's also a discussion on the different types of entities associated with them, reminiscent of the ahrimanic/luciferian convo we've had on Ecosophia (he names a third category I don't remember). All of them with different degrees of hatred or disdain for everything human.
Sometimes I wish it was just the ravings of disgruntled former Big Pharma employee ;-)

~T

[kimberlysteele]

I have only recently discovered Thomas Mayer's work and I don't own the book I mentioned (yet). In my own case, most of my information on the afterlives of people who took the jab comes from my conversations with dead people and their guardian spirits. I can confer that the entities who latch on to humans associated with the shot HATE humans and delight in tricking them into very bad deals. Many of the dead are earthbound right now, though I would not call the Covid jab the main factor for making that happen. It has more to do with how materialistic the human was and how many good works they did. If you are in touch with your higher self and act like it, doing unto others and being generous and grateful, nothing can touch you, not chemotherapy, not the jabs, nothing.

That said, if there were winners in the any Covid debacle of 2020-2023 besides the upper middle stockholder class, it is demons. And the upper middle stockholder class is going to find out the hard way what "the meek shall inherit the earth" means in their upcoming existence. So yeah, demons won it handily and their prize is the gift that will keep on giving. It's no wonder our era was dreaded and feared by seers of the past, including the Incans. It's tough to be incarnated right now.

[(Anonymous)]

The thing about Veil of Reality is that Bernhard Guenther seems to believe that the transhumanist dystopia is our future, even though due to resource depletion, climate change, and economic decline, our industrial society won't be able to support such a transhumanist dystopia after two or three decades.

I also find Guenther's concept of an Organic Portal without a soul to be wrong, and especially that half the world's population are Organic Portals without souls. He doesn't seem to know about the inner planes, or how everything has souls, even stuff like rocks and crystals. Human beings still have souls; what many of them are missing is the mental sheath that distinguishes human beings from animals and AI, and Bernhard Guenther is confusing the lack of a mental sheath with a lack of a soul. Because human beings have started a population boom and a sixth mass extinction, many animals without mental sheaths are currently being incarnated as humans because of the excess of human bodies and the lack of animal bodies. This situation is only temporary, as our industrial society collapses, the planet won't be able to support so many human beings, and nature will recover and populate Earth with animals again, and many of the humans without mental sheaths will go back to being animals until they actually develop a mental sheath.

[kimberlysteele]

One of my primary issues with both Guenther and Mayer is they have failed to say "I could be wrong", or at least if they have said they could be wrong, I have yet to find it. They are making all sorts of bold claims that cannot be proven.

[(Anonymous)]

Agree with all your points. The "organic portal theory" I had actually heard about many years before ever encountering Guenther. They also call them pre-Adamic and post-Adamic humanity (-ies). That's how certain circles (leaning toward the new-agey) interpret the world they see.
The interpretation from your comment, which is a more recent find for me, makes more sense, yes. And it comes from more "proper-occultism" sources.

To Kimberly : Mayer, it could be said, is from Rudolf Steiner's school of thought, if you're familiar with it, you'll be in known territory when reading. He's nuanced, I thought, not as peremptory as Guenther can be. Last point : they seem to have a lively spiritual community in Germany and the book includes conversations with contacts of Mayer's who speak to the deceased as well and their testimonies match yours. Examples of the dead being bogged down in the immediate afterlife, not able to flow freely, glued-like. But yes it can be due to how life was lived vs. the jabs alone.

~T

[kimberlysteele]

Thanks for this. I haven’t known of them for all that long, so I do appreciate the synopsis. When the Covid shot dead have contacted me, they have reached out, because there has been a stumbling block in there afterlife because of the shot. One of the things that you have to do when you were dead is to take accountability for what you did while alive and do it gracefully. Now, of course this is true whether you got the Covid shot or not. The reason spiritual work helps us in the afterlife so much is because we end up facing our mea culpas in a mature and balanced way while still alive. This is why I say everybody goes to heaven, hell, and then heaven again in the afterlife process. You get caught up in hell if you are not willing to face up to the consequences of your actions. It’s not eternal, and at any rate, time is not real, it’s just a joining of whatever vibration you made, while in the world. In other words, it’s an astral pyramid. If you are seriously immature, completely running away from what you did, you become earthbound. For instance, monsters like Jeffrey Epstein, who is probably still alive, or Sean Combs/Diddy will likely end up earthbound when they die. I anticipate both of them will be unwilling to go through the process of facing their consequences, and that they will be sequestered deep within the earth for a while, and then potentially given the “opportunity” to hitch a ride on a comet.

[(Anonymous)]

According to the Cleveland Clinic, you can develop brain fog after long stays at the hospital,

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/brain-fog

so I wonder if hospitals in general have similar negative spiritual effects on humans as taking the Covid vaccine and should be avoided at all costs.

[methylethyl]

Yes.

[kimberlysteele]

If you do have to go in a hospital for any reason (or a nursing home) wear a red bag amulet. It's also not a bad idea to keep a few prayers handy via memorization. It's better if it is an older prayer and/or if it rhymes. Many nasty beings hang out around hospitals and nursing homes looking for the spiritually weak and unprotected.

[(Anonymous)]

It seems that Franklin Delano Roosevelt is America's Trajan.

From the Wikipedia article on Trajan:

"As emperor of Rome, Trajan oversaw the construction of building projects such as the forum named after him, the introduction of social welfare policies such as the alimenta, and new military conquests. He annexed Nabataea and Dacia, and his war against the Parthian Empire ended with the incorporation of Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Assyria as Roman provinces. In August AD 117, while sailing back to Rome, Trajan fell ill and died of a stroke in the city of Selinus."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan

We can write the same about Roosevelt:

As president of America, Roosevelt oversaw the construction of building projects via the Public Works Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps, the introduction of social welfare policies such as Social Security, and new military conquests. His war against the Axis Powers in World War II ended with the incorporation of Western Europe, Japan and Korea as American client states. In April 1945, after returning back to America, Roosevelt fell ill and died of a stroke in the city of Warm Springs, Georgia.

[(Anonymous)]

Trump is covering up the Epstein scandal.

[kimberlysteele]

Yep. I think it is because of what Musk said on Twitter: Israel threatened to release Trump's pedo tapes.

[(Anonymous)]

What are some good resources / books / references on druidry?

[kimberlysteele]

I will get back to you on this! I have a few favorites, though it is nowhere near what I would call a thorough list.

[kimberlysteele]

Books I like:

John Michael Greer's Druid Magic Handbook and Druidry Handbook (2 separate books)
The Barddas by Iolo Morganwg
Ogam: A Celtic Tree Oracle by Paul Rhys Montefort
Companion for the Apprentice Wizard by Oberon Zelle
The Book of Druidry by Ross Williams
Magic and Medicine of Plants Readers Digest Books
Irish Fairy & Folk Tales by W.B. Yeats
Kalihi Valley's blog on Substack